It's been around 6 years since I've started playing the guitar. In that tem I finished grade school, went through high school and have matured in so many ways. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't began playing the guitar I doubt I'd be half the man I am today. Throughout my guitar playing career I had a ton of support from friends and family telling me that I was doing great and that I was very talented. To be honest I never really believed them. When I did though it really helped me to become such a more confident and headstrong individual. I wanted to share that feeling with everybody through my knowledge and interest in music by making a booklet teaching others. I know that a lot of aspiring musicians often get discouraged when they hear a lot of different things about theory and music notation. I aimed to make my capstone simple to understand so that those beginners can get started on the right foot.

I started off with the basics of music theory, as well as how to tune a guitar and what common terms mean that musicians might here a lot. From there I went on to explain the different types of chords and how to read a tab. From there I talked about what songs to play and what would help people with their music career. I made sure to provide dozens of example songs of all difficulties to make sure anybody can try some songs from the booklet. I know that my booklet won't be able to teach everyone, but hopefully those that it can teach, it does them well.

The Ultimate-Guitar
community is a vast one filled with hundreds of guitar players of various skill
levels. These guitarists speak
together on a forum and share their tabs with one another for the benefit of
the world. Ultimate Guitar also has a lessons section where anybody can upload
a lesson on whatever they please. I’ve used this to my benefit by taking pieces
of different lessons and incorporating them into my own booklet.

A big part of teaching guitar is giving a way to read music.
Tablature is debatably the easiest way to teach guitar without going too in
depth about music theory. Making these tabs can be extremely tedious, but
thanks to guitar tab creator the pain of making a tab has been reduced by a
great amount. I used this a lot so far in making lessons and plan on using this
for the rest of it since it’s such a great tool.

Abe Musselman’s book
on teaching guitar was very similar to what I did for mine. I was able to go
through his capstone and get a decent understanding of what I can do to make it
better. Abe also had a ton of good examples and sources to use. I got the
guitar tab creator from this capstone, as well as several terrific song
examples that I could implement in my project. It’s also nice to have a source
that isn’t a website, especially since I can speak to this person personally.

I need to know HOW to
teach guitar to people before I can actually go about doing it in a lengthy
way. Tom Hess has managed to put some good lessons and tips into this website
which allows me to take a step in the right direction with writing my
book. This website also talks
about common mistakes, which is very helpful for me!

This is a good website for choosing different parts of my
intermediate section. It has such a large amount of things in it that I can use
it’s amazing. It’s kind of like a tutorial on my own capstone in itself.

Cross, Dan. "Learning Guitar - Lesson One -
Learning About the Parts of a Guitar."Learning
Guitar - Lesson One - Learning About the Parts of a Guitar. About.com, Web.

I figured that it’d
be very smart if I taught the people who are reading the book the different
parts of the instrument, which they are playing. I also wanted to use the image
on the site to show how the guitar is laid out.

Having songs in my
capstone is very important. They provide a terrific reference of real world
application with what you’ve been learning. This website is terrific since it
gives me dozens of songs at different skill levels! I can use some of these
songs in my capstone, and I can also use them to think of other songs.

An extremely
important part of my capstone is separating the different guitars. These being
acoustic and electric. Based on what you want to know about guitar you can read
the different parts of my book to learn about which type of guitar you want to
play.

In terms of acoustic
guitar, finger picking is extremely important. A lot of professional acoustic
guitarists are very dependant on it. It manages to keep a very fast sound,
while at the same time sounding very nice and melodic. I figured that this
would be an extremely important thing to put in to the acoustic portion of my
capstone since it’s practically required making any progress in playing.

http://blog.learntoplaymusic.com/choosing-a-guitar-playing-style/

G, Peter. "Choosing a Guitar Playing
Style."Learn to Play Music. Learn to Play Music, 2014. Web.

As with my last
source, this site allows to teach several different aspects of playing guitar
playing such as finger picking.
This one also teaches rhythm and lead guitar though! These also can be relevant for teaching
acoustic guitar, but it’s also extremely helpful for electric guitar, which you
can find a lead/rhythm trade in almost any two-guitar band!